Method of decorating pottery.



PATENTED DEC. l1, 1906.

J. YOUNG. METHOD OF DECORATING POTTERY.

A`PPLIOATION FILED MAB.

gt/wanton UNITED sTATEs PATENT OEEIOE.

JOHN W. YOUNG,YOE zANEsvILLE, OHIO.

Specification of Letters Patent.

`METHOD o F DECORATING POTTERY.

Patented Dec. 11 1906.

Application filed, March 17,1906. Serial No. 306,696-

To' @Zt whom Lt may concern,.-

Be it known that I, JOHN W. YOUNG, a citizen of the. United States, residing at Zanesville, in the county of Muskingum and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Decorat ing Pottery; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable Others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference.

being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates tonew and useful improvements in the method of decorating earthenwwre; and the obj ect of the invention is to produce an ornamental ware with but a single firing of the material, thereby producing crockery having an underglazed ornamental design, comparing favorably With the.

ordinary twice-fired white Bristol glass or Holland ware.

In the manufacture of stone and other earthenware it has been the practice to apply the decorations Aby the employment of p ain prints or those filled in by pencil or decalcomania prints, which are a plied to the pottery after the glazing of t e latter and which requires a second-firing, or to apply the designs by transferring Colo -matter which is transferred from the plate dlrect to the surface of the crockery, and afterward! the crockery is dipped ina glaze Iand iired, and when itl is desired to apply open-work designs or filled-in patterns to produce different colorsgit has been the practice to apply a portion of the des' n and afterward iill inby pencil parts of the esign, and which necessitates also a second burning.

To obviate the expense of a secondburning and to produce a result which is'an advanc'e step 1n the art, I have found by extensive experimenting, thatiitis possible toapply t e design to the pottery in a green state by the use of an especially-constructed stamp having the design in bold relief .and very elastic, whereby the coloring material may be ap lied .with slight pressure to the curved su ace of the pottery, such as thin table or toilet ware, (which in a green state would not permit of its being de'coratedby the usual methods,) after which the article is dipped in a glaze and fired, therebyv producing an ornamental Ware at a muc ess ex- .the same from aplate uponwhich the design is engraved or otherwise formed by filling the design with a l 'tional view through thestamp. and cushion provided therefor.

In carrying out the steps of my method, the crockery lof earthenware, andespecially of the thinner goods, such as tableware, &c., is molded in the shape desired, and while in `The'design to be transferred` to the surface of the crockery isrst formed in the shape of a rubber stampwith the outlines of the design in hi h relief and mounted upon a soft cushion wich will allow the various parts of the design to yield when the design is applied pense than wares-of this nature heretofore a green state the ornamentation is applied.

to either a convexed or a concaved surface of the crockery. In applying the design it is very essential that these conditions obtain in order to apply the design satisfactorily, and in order to prevent the stamp from sli ping a portion of the design, preferably tf1) central part thereof, is'iirst applied to the convexed'or concaved' 'surface of the crockery and light pressure applied to the stamp sufficient to cause the design to be transferred to the damp surface of the green crockery before being fired. By tilting' the stamp back and forth upon the surface of the without any slipping or crushing the green Ware.

`9S l crockery a ,true design may be transferred When it is. desired to apply an open-work design to the surface of the crockery, the design may be filled in in different colors of material by separate stamps, thereby disthe design by the more expensive metho of using the transfer designs, which, as before stated, require the second of the IOO pen'sing with the penciling 1n of the colors,

as -is commonly the practice, or by applying crockery, and henceentailing ay conslderable -I extra expense infthemanufacture ofthe By the method of ornamenting crockery ware.

inv accordance withfg; 'my .invention face of the pottery while in a green state by means of a soft yielding stamp, and afterward immersing the decorated article `in a glazing, and irin the same, as set forth.

2. he metho of decorating pottery, consisting in coating theprintin -surface of a soft-cushion.stamp,'having a esign in high .i relief, with a suitable printing materi al7 then causing the coated surface of the design to contact yieldingly against `the curved sur' face of the Crockery in agreen'state, and afterward'ap A lying a glazing and firing the same, as set orth.

'A 3. A method of producing white -Bristol `ware whilel in a green state, by means of a soft yielding stamp, and afterward immersing the decorated article in a firlng the same, as set forth.

y4. A method of-producing white Bristol decorated underglazed Ware, consisting in coating the printing-surface of a soft-,cushioned stamp, having a designI in high relief, with a suitable printing material, then causing the coated surface of the design to contact yieldingly against the curved surface of glazing and `the ware in a green state, and afterward applying a glazing and firing the Ware, as set forth. f

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiiX my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

' JGHN W. YOUNG. Y

Witnesses: C

A. La HOUGH,

R. A'. BoswELL. 

